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After a protester interrupted yesterday's Supreme Court hearing on gay marriage to scream about how supporters will burn in hell, Antonin Scalia quipped from the bench that "it was rather refreshing, actually." It was a joke, sure, but "there’s every reason to believe that Scalia more or less shared the protester’s view of the immorality of homosexuality," writes Jeffrey Toobin at the New Yorker. The joke stood in contrast to the "respectful tone" of the other justices during questioning, even those presumably opposed to the idea of same-sex marriage.

"It is one measure of the success of the gay-rights movement that all the other Justices felt compelled to phrase their questions in ways that honored the humanity of gay people," writes Toobin. He thinks the court will rule in favor of gay marriage, but the arguments alone showed how far the country and the court have come on the matter of gay rights. "On this issue at least, it’s not Scalia’s Court anymore." Click for Toobin's full column.

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WillyB

May 3, 2015 8:48 AM CDT

There's no doubt Scalia is a big time Bible thumper, as are many in this country. It still amazing to me that so many folks put such faith in these "Holy Books", thousands of years old, written when (of course), there is no lasting proof of their truth, written by persons unknown, over hundreds of years, about events sometimes centuries in the past. What does that say about us as a people, as a race, as supposedly the most intelligent beings around? God, indeed, help us all.